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A patient pours nutritious food into a feeding tube provided by HCM City’s Oncology Hospital. Photo tuoitre.vn HCM CITY A 55-year-old woman takes a pair of chopsticks to eat her lunch of bún thịt nướng - a Vietnamese rice noodle bowl with vegetables and grilled pork in a lobby of HCM City’s Oncology Hospital. She only ate half of the meal before dropping her food. "I'm tired. I can't continue eating," she said. According to her relatives, she ate very little when she underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer. She did not receive any nutrition advice from doctors. The woman was hospitalised in 2016 for breast cancer and her weight has fallen from 52kg to 41kg during treatment, Tuổi trẻ (Youth) online newspaper reported. Another case is N.X.H, a 68-year-old man, of the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, who has been treated for thyroid cancer for two years at the … [Read more...] about Lack of nutritional advice leads to malnourished patients

Viet Nam News Many doctors in Việt Nam are preferring to work in private hospitals rather than in public hospitals. This is because they find it nicer to work at the private institutions and the pay is better. This trend is a worry for the country because it causes problems for hospitals that ordinary people need and use when they are sick or injured. Authorities are now thinking of how to change things so that fewer doctors leave the public hospitals. ĐỒNG NAI – More talented and experienced doctors are leaving public hospitals to work in private facilities, raising concerns of a shortage of key doctors in the public sector. Low salaries and poor working conditions were among reasons given by doctors leaving public hospitals. Figures from southern Đồng Nai Province’s Department of Health show that the number of doctors leaving public hospitals for private facilities has increases over the past few years. In 2016, as many … [Read more...] about Doctors head towards the private sector

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — With a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, Japan had to adopt a more open-door approach towards foreign workers to staff its labour-strapped industries, with Vietnamese workers among the fastest growing groups. The country’s previously strict approach to immigration changed in June as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, officially announced a set of measures to increase the flow of labour to the country, including the creation of “a new visa status for non-professional foreign labourers,” the Japan Times reported. New policies would allow apprentices to remain in Japan for a maximum five additional years under a labour visa after their standard three-year training. The Japanese Government said it was also considering letting these visa-holders stay in Japan indefinitely if they pass language proficiency and technical skills tests during their five-year sojourn. In a bid … [Read more...] about Japan’s open-door policy for foreign workers

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — With a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, Japan had to adopt a more open-door approach towards foreign workers to staff its labour-strapped industries, with Vietnamese workers among the fastest growing groups. The country’s previously strict approach to immigration changed in June as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, officially announced a set of measures to increase the flow of labour to the country, including the creation of “a new visa status for non-professional foreign labourers,” the Japan Times reported. New policies would allow apprentices to remain in Japan for a maximum five additional years under a labour visa after their standard three-year training. The Japanese Government said it was also considering letting these visa-holders stay in Japan indefinitely if they pass language proficiency and technical skills tests during their five-year sojourn. In a bid … [Read more...] about Japan’s open-door policy to foreign workers a boon for Việt Nam

Viet Nam News By Hà Nguyễn Banana flower salad, a popular dish in Việt Nam, is known in the north as nộm bắp chuối and as gỏi bắp chuối in the south. It is one of the dishes that embodies the characteristics of rural areas across the country’s three regions. Recently, the dish has cropped up as a specialty on restaurant menus because of its fresh flavours that help to cool diners in hot weather, said Phạm Tuấn Hải, member of the jury board of Master Chef Việt Nam. Banana flowers from low land areas are often violet in colour, while those from the forests are red. The best banana flower is fresh with a dark red colour and covered with white anther dust, said Hải. “As a chef, I’ve tasted many dishes but my favourite is banana flower salad made by my mother, because it has a natural fragrance and flavour that I will never forget,” … [Read more...] about Banana flower salad evokes taste of home